The Fremen have long since lost their identity and military power, and have been replaced as the Imperial army by the Fish Speakers, an all-female army who obey Leto without question. Leto has disbanded the Landsraad to all but a few Great Houses the remaining powers defer to his authority, although they individually conspire against him in secret. As a result, his rule is one of religious awe and despotic fear. Leto has been physically transformed into a worm, retaining only his human face and arms, and though he is now seemingly immortal and invulnerable to harm, he is prone to instinct-driven bouts of violence when provoked to anger. The death of all other sandworms as a result of the terraforming of Dune, and his control of the remaining supply of the all-important drug melange, has allowed him to keep civilization under his complete command. Leto II Atreides, the God Emperor, has ruled the universe as a tyrant for 3,500 years after becoming a hybrid of human and giant sandworm in Children of Dune. 11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by Publishers Weekly. The fourth in his Dune series of six novels, it was ranked as the No. God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, published in 1981.
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